More than 80 percent of mobile health apps approved by the Food and Drug Administrationhave tested positive for two critical security vulnerabilities, according to a vendor specializing in anti-tamper protections for software.

The meaningful use program is on the cusp of major changes, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said late Monday, adding that 2016 would likely see the end of the program altogether.

More than 200,000 eligible professionals are set to see a slash in their Medicare payments after failing to meet Meaningful Use standards in 2014, according to a fact sheet released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Men working in the healthcare technology field make about $26,000 more than women, with the average salary for such professionals at $111,000, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2015 Compensation Survey found.

Although 66 percent of the largest 100 US hospitals have consumer-facing mobile apps, and 38 percent of those have developed proprietary apps for their patients, a mere 2 percent of patients at those 66 hospitals are using apps provided to them, according to an Accenture report

Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced that Quebec will move toward the use of a single electronic health record system in hospitals across the province. The solution decided upon by the province is called Cristal-Net, and it has been in use at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec – Université Laval since 2003.

Whitehall is still failing to learn from IT failures and is continuing to make “very common mistakes”, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report on the late, over-budget and under-performing GP Extraction Service.